Recess-bed.



' W. E. INGRAM- &G. W. HINTON.

REcEss BBD.

` 4APPvLlcluiTroN:FILED AUG. 21.81997. 899,868.;

i T u v wim #SNI Patented Sept..29, 1908.

Tenir-ED s'rA'rEs PATENToEEicE-- .Y

wAL'rEiiE. vliteit/iii ANncHAELEs w.v EiNToN, or Los ANGELES,cALiroRiual nEcEss-Bnn.

Patented sept. 29, isos.

Appiicauon mea August 21,1907. seriaiNalassAei,

ll'fb all whomfit 'may concern.'

`.Be it known,A that we, WV- and CHARLES XV., Hmmm, citizens of theUnited States, and residents of the city of 'Los' Angeles, county of LosAiigeles, State oit" California, have invented new and usefulimprovements-in Recess-Beds, of which the tollowing is ay specification.

The object of-our invention is to provide affolding recess'bed havingcounter-weigl-its 'which will balance the weight'of the bed as it.is'iinoved between the floor -to the recess,

the weights'being connected tothe bed thattheir vleverage onv the' saine-varies as the effectivev weight'of the bed varieson 4moving between itshorizontal and 'vertical positions. l/Veaccoinplish thi's object bymeans of the Vin any approved devicev described herein and illustratedin the accompanying drawings in which z- Figurelis a sectional elevationof our improved recess bed in its folded position. Fig. 2.,- is a viewof the same in its openposition. Fig. 3.- is a'sectional plan view of4`the-- saine Vtakenon line 3*-3 of Fig. 2.

tin between the head board and the panel which closes the lrecess.Referring'to the drawings 5 designates a recess Which we have Ishown asembodied in the wall 6 of`a` room, but which may be built A `mannereither partly in a Wall or as aseparate article .of furniture.

-.The Jiront opening ofthe recessis framed by :teasing 7 which `impartsto the same a finrails 16 secured to casing ished appearance and alsoforms astop, as will be hereinafter'described, for the for- WardAmovement of panel 9 which is adapted to close the 'recess when thebed'.is in the position shown in Fig. 2. Pivotally secured at1 0 'tocasing pivoted at their lower ends to bed frame l2 at l13. The bed frameis provided near its head with pivoted pins lhavingslots 15y thereinadapted to slide over verticalv 7 oneacli-side oi" the bed frame. Bymeans ot' these slotted pins sliding on the vertical rails the head ofthe bed is guided in a vertical motion, so that, when in use, the bedmay be entirely outside the recess, pivot 13 being torward of thevertical line through pivot 10. 'Foot board 2O ofthe hed is pivoted at23 to posts 24 on either side, a pair of supporting legs 2 1 connectednear their lower ends -by a- V7 land on each'side of the wopening aretwo curved supporting bars 11 horizontal rod 22,l being mounted on thefootboard. Legs 21 are thus pivoted so that they'niay'be thrown over ontop 'of the bed and the bed clothes' thereon into the position slipwn inFig; 1. The bed clothes are thus lieldfroin falling from the bed frame,and if necessary theiijlower ends may be 'thrown over `rod 22 to preventtheiiislipping downwardly when the bed' is in its vertical position. j A

Pivotally secured at-BO to supporting bars 11 are two L shapedbars31pivotally secured 4at 32 to the lower ends of the panel supportingbars?) which are in turn pivoteda-t 34: to-'panel ,9. Panel 9 carries onits .rear face a weight box 35 inI which l'weights quantities-to balancethe weight of the bed frame. L shaped bar 31 rests on a shoulder 3T onthe bed fra1ne,fbeing held from transverse movement'by a cli-p B8. ltwill be observed that on account of the relative moveiiieiit ofsuppi'n'ting bars 11 and bed' `frame 12 L shaped bar 31 will slide onshoulder 3T between the extreme positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, 'themechanical advantage of weights 3G over the bed fra-ine Varyingaccordingly. Thus When the loed is in its closed position and thereforethe raising effect of the weights on the bed is a minimum but when thebed is in its horizontal position the eit'ect of the weight to raise thebed is at a maXimum. By appropriately arranging the varions lengths oflevers the bed frame may be that it is only necessary to exert a smalleffort to move the bed from one position to the other. Headboard 42 isprovided with two links 39 which engage slotted plates 40 on panelf.)and thus lock the top of the headboard and the bottom of the paneltogether, so that the panel moves forwardly when the' bed islet down.

l? rom the foregoing descriptionit will be seen that this inventionconsists essentially in the provisionoi' a double set of levers, one setsupporting the bed and the otherset con-v necting the countereweiglit tothe bed, It is not necessary that supporting bars 11 should be curved,but they are conveniently made so to be out ol sigl'it, as shown in Fig.2. Le-

-vers 31 may also be made straight without disturbing their function,bars 33 being connected to their ends.

3 are adapted to be placed iii-sufficient balanced throughout its entiremovement so Havingldeseribed our invention what we claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters porting rods, guides to restrict themovenient of the head of said bed to ayvertieal plane,y levers pivotedto'said support-ing rods at'points intermediate their ends, said leversresting on said bed frame and having a sliding' motion thereon, and VaWeight connected to the other ends of said levers. A

2. A' recess bed, comprising supporting walls, a bed frame,supportingbars pvoted te. said Walls and to said bed framer` la counterweight, and levers pivetallv y connected to said counter Weight,pivotallv' eonneetedt0 said supporting bars,A and resting upon'said bedframe. 3. A recess bed, comprising supporting;

Walls, a bed frame, supporting bars pivoted at one end to said Walls andat the other to' lsaid bed frame, a counter weight, and levers bed frameatpoints intermediate the ends of said le'vers.

4. A recess bed, comprising supporting walls, a bed frame, Supportingbars pivoted to said ivalls and to nsaid bed frame, means to restrictthe head of thebe'd frame to a vertical plane, levers pivotallyconnected to said supporting bars andy rest-ingon said bed Aframe, and a'counter-weight connected to said levers.

ln witness that we clalm the foregoing we have hereunto subscribed ournames this .9th da)v of Angius@ 15207.

lVLTER E. INGR. CllRLE S lv. l'l TN T( )N lllitnesses EDMUND A.S'rmi'sn, @LIJN PALMER.

